Philadelphia Lawyer

Song Philadelphia Lawyer
Artist Woody Guthrie
Album My Dusty Road

Lyrics

Way out in
Reno, Nevada
Where romance blooms and fades
A great Philadelphia lawyer
Was in love with a
Hollywood maid
Come, love and we'll go ramblin'
Down where the lights are so bright
I'll win you a divorce from your husband
And we can get married tonight
Wild Bill was a gun-totin' cowboy
Ten notches were carved in his gun
And all the boys around
RenoLeft Wild
Bill's maiden alone
One night when
Bill was returning
From ridin' the range in the cold
He dreamed of his
Hollywood sweetheart
Her love was as lasting as gold
As he drew near her window
Two shadows he saw on the shade
It was the great
Philadelphia lawyer
Makin' love to
Bill's Hollywood maid
The night was as still as the desert
The moon hangin' high overhead
Bill listened awhile through the window
He could hear every word that he said"Your hands are so pretty and lovelyYour form's so rare and divineCome go with me to the cityAnd leave this wild cowboy behind"
Now tonight back in old
Pennsylvania
Among those beautiful pines
There's one less
Philadelphia lawyer
In old Philadelphia tonight